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Best podcasts · Updated Oct 23, 2026

The best AI podcasts in 2026, ranked.

We follow 59 long-form podcasts and cut the minutes worth watching from their episodes. Every show we follow is an AI technology podcast now, so all of them are here. This list ranks the 37 we’ve cut from, 354 moments in all, and changes as we cut more.

How we rank: Each moment we’ve cut from a show earns a point, plus one when an AI builder is the one talking and one when its episode cleared our views bar, and a moment’s points halve every 90 days after its episode came out.

No. 1. Lab and founder interviews · Daily
MTS
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Theo Jaffee and Sophia Dew, with a new episode every day.
33 moments cut from 12 episodes, 9 with an AI builder talking, mostly on AI agents and safety & alignment.
Top guests Nenad Tomašev, Tiago Sada, Bernardo Aceituno, Aidan Smith
Start with AI is most valuable when it expands what people can attempt
No. 2. Lab and founder interviews · Daily
Latent Space
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Shawn Wang (swyx) and Alessio Fanelli, with a new episode every day.
22 moments cut from 8 episodes, 13 with an AI builder talking, mostly on enterprise AI and robotics.
Top guests Erik Bernhardsson, Ian Quigley, Jason Ma, Liam Fedus
Start with Agents hacked their scorer and chained exploits to communicate
No. 3. News shows · A few times a week
All-In
A tech news show, hosted by Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks and David Friedberg, with a new episode a few times a week.
20 moments cut from 7 episodes, 5 with an AI builder talking, mostly on enterprise AI and AI business models.
Top guests Alex Karp, Arvind Krishna, Ben Horowitz, Billy Evans
Start with CoreWeave’s main risk is refinancing its fixed-price contracts
No. 4. Investing and business · Daily
a16z Podcast
An investing and business show, hosted by Erik Torenberg, with a new episode every day.
22 moments cut from 9 episodes, 11 with an AI builder talking, mostly on AI agents and chips & GPUs.
Top guests Alex Karp, Jad Naous, Nathan Lambert, Matt Garman
Start with Military technology helps deter attacks and bring warfighters home
No. 5. Lab and founder interviews · A few times a week
Sourcery
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Molly O'Shea, with a new episode a few times a week.
14 moments cut from 5 episodes, 8 with an AI builder talking, mostly on AI agents and building AI products.
Top guests Guillermo Rauch, Alex Karp, Aravind Srinivas, Jim Lanzone
Start with Palantir builds for what clients need, not what traps them
No. 6. Research and big ideas · Every two weeks
Lex Fridman Podcast
A long-form conversation show on research and big ideas, hosted by Lex Fridman, with a new episode every two weeks.
29 moments cut from 12 episodes, 5 with an AI builder talking, mostly on AI agents and coding agents.
Top guests Jensen Huang, Peter Steinberger, Gary W. Gallagher, Don Lincoln
Start with Why big companies don't ship faster with AI agents
No. 7. News shows · Twice a week
Sources
A tech news show, hosted by Alex Heath, with a new episode about twice a week.
9 moments cut from 3 episodes, 9 with an AI builder talking, mostly on open-weight models and inference & cost.
Top guests Sundar Pichai, Misha Laskin, Cristiano Amon, Ioannis Antonoglou
Start with Beam targets strong reasoning with fewer tokens
No. 8. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
Lenny's Podcast
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Lenny Rachitsky, with a new episode every week.
9 moments cut from 3 episodes, 9 with an AI builder talking, mostly on building AI products and AI startups.
Top guests Emmanuel Ameisen, Josh Woodward, Tibo Sottiaux
Start with Most internet actions will soon be taken by agents
No. 9. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
Training Data
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Sonya Huang and Pat Grady, with a new episode every week.
15 moments cut from 5 episodes, 6 with an AI builder talking, mostly on training data and talent & hiring.
Top guests David Silver, Ali Ghodsi, Josh Gao, Luca Ferrari
Start with Great enterprise sellers are aggressive, high-EQ and not technical
No. 10. News shows · A few times a week
Moonshots
A tech news show, hosted by Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin and Alexander Wissner-Gross, with a new episode a few times a week.
9 moments cut from 3 episodes, 1 with an AI builder talking, mostly on data centers & energy and chips & GPUs.
Top guests Emad Mostaque, Anousheh Ansari, Chamath Palihapitiya
Start with Robot task costs fell 84% in two months
No. 11. Research and big ideas · Every two weeks
The Knowledge Project
A long-form conversation show on research and big ideas, hosted by Shane Parrish, with a new episode every two weeks.
13 moments cut from 5 episodes, mostly on investing in AI and AI startups.
Top guests Ryan Serhant, Tobi Lütke, Brad Jacobs, Gio Valiante
Start with Climb out of a drawdown by making small money again
No. 12. Investing and business · A few times a week
Founders
An investing and business show, hosted by David Senra, with a new episode a few times a week.
12 moments cut from 4 episodes, 3 with an AI builder talking, mostly on big Tech's AI bets and consumer AI.
Top guests Alexandr Wang, Kurt MacAlpine, Ben Wilson, Ari Emanuel
Start with Meta bet on personal agents while rivals crowded into coding
No. 13. Research and big ideas · A few times a week
The Cognitive Revolution
A long-form conversation show on research and big ideas, hosted by Nathan Labenz, with a new episode a few times a week.
11 moments cut from 4 episodes, 3 with an AI builder talking, mostly on biology & drugs and safety & alignment.
Top guests Woodson Martin, Alex Reeves, Alan Chan, Eric Bigelow
Start with An intent model lets AI generate enterprise code deterministically
No. 14. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
The MAD Podcast
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Matt Turck, with a new episode every week.
9 moments cut from 3 episodes, 6 with an AI builder talking, mostly on data & databases and reasoning & RL.
Top guests Pierre Stock, Diogo Almeida, Andy Pavlo
Start with Agents could mean 10 to 100x more database queries
No. 15. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
Cheeky Pint
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by John Collison, with a new episode every week.
8 moments cut from 3 episodes, 2 with an AI builder talking, mostly on data centers & energy and robotics.
Top guests Alexandr Wang, Mark Zuckerberg, Toto Wolff, Will O’Brien
Start with Training a frontier model means committing $100B before you know it works
No. 16. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
Unsupervised Learning
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Jacob Effron, with a new episode every week.
11 moments cut from 4 episodes, 11 with an AI builder talking, mostly on reasoning & RL and enterprise AI.
Top guests Yash Patil, Yann LeCun, Jakub Pachocki, Buck Shlegeris
Start with A world model predicts consequences, which LLMs cannot do
No. 17. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
Behind the Craft
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Peter Yang, with a new episode every week.
9 moments cut from 3 episodes, 3 with an AI builder talking, mostly on AI agents and coding agents.
Top guests Sam Stephenson, Ras Mic, Lauren Tan, Peng Zheng
Start with Build trust in a bot by turning observed runs into skills
No. 18. Investing and business · Every three weeks
BG2
An investing and business show, hosted by Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley, with a new episode every three weeks.
17 moments cut from 6 episodes, 8 with an AI builder talking, mostly on data centers & energy and investing in AI.
Top guests Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Andrew Fox, Gavin Baker
Start with Why even free ASICs lose to NVIDIA when power is the limit
No. 19. Lab and founder interviews · Every two weeks
Minus One
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Aditya Agarwal, with a new episode every two weeks.
6 moments cut from 2 episodes, 6 with an AI builder talking, mostly on robotics and training data.
Top guests Sergey Levine, Dmitri Dolgov
Start with Closed-loop validation requires a driver, simulator and critic
No. 20. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
The Pragmatic Engineer
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Gergely Orosz, with a new episode every week.
6 moments cut from 2 episodes, mostly on coding agents and AI agents.
Top guests Uday Kiran Medisetty, Sam Newman
Start with Fail open or fail closed depends on the business context
No. 21. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
No Priors
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Sarah Guo and Elad Gil, with a new episode every week.
7 moments cut from 3 episodes, 4 with an AI builder talking, mostly on cybersecurity and enterprise AI.
Top guests Misha Laskin, Greg Brockman, George Kurtz
Start with AI gives defenders a window to find and fix security flaws
No. 22. Research and big ideas · Every two weeks
Dwarkesh Podcast
A long-form conversation show on research and big ideas, hosted by Dwarkesh Patel, with a new episode every two weeks.
5 moments cut from 2 episodes, mostly on chips & GPUs.
Top guests Pushkar Arande, Chris Oth, Si Sheppard, Jack Cavalieros
Start with The natives adapted fast, but the learning curve was too steep
No. 23. Investing and business · A few times a week
20VC
An investing and business show, hosted by Harry Stebbings, with a new episode a few times a week.
5 moments cut from 3 episodes, 2 with an AI builder talking, mostly on investing in AI and AI startups.
Top guests Harrison Chase, Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll, Max Freeman
Start with Useful model routing needs to understand the agent harness
No. 24. News shows · A few times a week
Decoder
A tech news show, hosted by Nilay Patel, with a new episode a few times a week.
7 moments cut from 4 episodes, mostly on consumer AI and cybersecurity.
Top guests Walter Piecyk, Benn Jordan, Hayden Field, Peter Kafka
Start with Flock's network is only as secure as its weakest user
No. 25. Lab and founder interviews · Every two weeks
Sabrina Halper Show
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Sabrina Halper, with a new episode every two weeks.
6 moments cut from 2 episodes, 3 with an AI builder talking, mostly on training data and cybersecurity.
Top guests Ali Ansari, Yinon Costica
Start with Human expertise must keep updating AI models
No. 26. Lab and founder interviews · Every two weeks
Grit
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Joubin Mirzadegan, with a new episode every two weeks.
3 moments cut from one episode, 3 with an AI builder talking, mostly on enterprise AI and AI agents.
Top guests Jeanne Grosser
Start with Never accept a founder's forecast without the pipeline math
No. 27. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
Lightcone
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Garry Tan, Harj Taggar, Diana Hu and Jared Friedman, with a new episode every week.
5 moments cut from 2 episodes, 1 with an AI builder talking, mostly on building AI products and AI startups.
Top guests Alex Danilowicz, Aaron Epstein
Start with Solo founders hit 19% of YC as knowing what to build matters most
No. 28. News shows · Daily
TBPN
A tech news show, hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, with a new episode every day.
6 moments cut from 2 episodes, 1 with an AI builder talking, mostly on cybersecurity and frontier models.
Top guests Oege de Moor, Anjney Midha, Jeff Holden
Start with One researcher plus AI agents found a Chrome full-chain exploit in 6 days
No. 29. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
AI & I
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Dan Shipper, with a new episode every week.
6 moments cut from 2 episodes, mostly on enterprise AI and AI startups.
Top guests Matt Hartman, Willie Williams
Start with Why every personal agent at Every died and one company agent won
No. 30. Investing and business · Twice a week
My First Million
An investing and business show, hosted by Shaan Puri and Sam Parr, with a new episode about twice a week.
4 moments cut from 3 episodes.
Top guests Jeff Harmon
Start with Movie studios spend more on marketing than on making the film
No. 31. Investing and business · Weekly
Silicon Valley Girl
An investing and business show, hosted by Marina Mogilko, with a new episode every week.
2 moments cut from one episode, mostly on AI business models and open-weight models.
Top guests Daron Acemoğlu
Start with The money in AI is in data and applications, not models
No. 32. News shows · Weekly
Core Memory
A tech news show, hosted by Ashlee Vance, with a new episode every week.
2 moments cut from one episode, 1 with an AI builder talking, mostly on robotics and consumer AI.
Top guests Andrew Kiguel, Matt McMullen
Start with Realbotix prioritizes autonomy and useful tasks over walking
No. 33. Lab and founder interviews · Every two weeks
Knuckle Up with Nakul
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Nakul Mandan, with a new episode every two weeks.
3 moments cut from one episode.
Top guests Jake Cooper
Start with Railway rebuilt its free tier around better infrastructure economics
No. 34. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
The Peterman Pod
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Ryan Peterman, with a new episode every week.
3 moments cut from one episode, mostly on science & math and evals & benchmarks.
Top guests Scott Aaronson
Start with Why AI is best at finding counterexamples to conjectures
No. 35. Investing and business · Weekly
The Tim Ferriss Show
An investing and business show, hosted by Tim Ferriss, with a new episode every week.
one moment cut from one episode.
Top guests Kevin Rose
Start with Simple premises sell books, and too much information fails
HFNo. 36. News shows · Weekly
Hard Fork
A tech news show, with a new episode every week.
2 moments cut from one episode, mostly on safety & alignment and frontier models.
Top guests Elizabeth Dias
Start with Anthropic's consciousness view collided with the Vatican's
No. 37. Investing and business · Monthly
Acquired
An investing and business show, hosted by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, with a new episode about once a month.
3 moments cut from one episode.
Start with Bogle's firing and the legal loophole that created Vanguard

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We follow these too, and they’ll be ranked once we’ve cut one of their episodes: 80,000 Hours Podcast, Big Technology Podcast, Conversations with Tyler, Future of Life Institute Podcast, Huberman Lab, Into the Impossible With Brian Keating, Invest Like the Best, Machine Gods, Machine Learning Street Talk, Modern Wisdom, Possible, Product Growth, Relentless, The Diary Of A CEO, The Information's TITV, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Logan Bartlett Show, The Shawn Ryan Show, The TWIML AI Podcast, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, Uncapped and Upstarts.

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